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[Romulus_Sorvian]

Decided on the Army i am gonna build. Gonna look for models this weekend.

Any tips on where to look? Also how hard will it be to build a pre-heresy army?

Thanks in advance for any responses

[JC 042]

Its VERY hard. The best place to look is Forge World, if your serious about doing a proper pre heresy army. It involves buying dozens of the same type of armour and weapons just for the basic model, then you have to buy loads of plastic kits for some half decent weapons and specific army conversions.

Of course a cheaper alternative is bying LOTS of thousand sons kits and swapping parts out with standard space marine parts. Such as always keep the heads for them. Also I know somone who has used grey knight terminators for his thousand sons, its all GK but the heads swapped out for Thousand Sons.

[Thugren]

I have a prehetesy thousand son army, if you'd like hot me up in pm and I cam give you a laundry list

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[Romulus_Sorvian]

Cool thanks guys. Good to know ahead of time what i am in for

[Cypher 1013]

You should google mark 2,3 and 4 power armor to get ideas for the scheme. Should pads the plating has changed since. Good luck I cant wait to see the completed items.

[Romulus_Sorvian]

Well from the pics i been seeing i am hoping for something like this.

I think the artist did an amazing job on these.

[Crimson Marine]

They are works of art, the first one's power guan dao looks so realistic. But the second pics colour looks like there may be some photoshop creeping in.

Any hoo, good luck with the army, will be a interesting one to follow.

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[JC 042]

I wouldnt set your ambitions THAT high unless your a master modeler with green stuff and used to work with the eavy metal class painting team.

If I was you, buy lots of Forge World, assuming if I was you with LOTS of money. But its your choice.

Also at the bare minimum I think you should use the current Thousand Sons kit's heads for you HQ and/or sergeant models.

[Darkanis]

If your rich shop at Forge World if not then shop here TheWarStore.com/Scibor Monstrous Minis. Most of the parts on those two models were crafted by Scibor and TheWarStore.com gives great discounts. If your from the UK/EU it may be better for you to shop Scibors website sciborminiatures.com, just depends on where you live. Check it out. 
I forgot to put that Scibor even makes the Egypt style weapons. You'll have to look through the armor and weapons for what you like because he can't come out and say this is for Pre Heresy Thousand Sons due to GW's BS.

[JC 042]

Theres a prob with the warstore site: "Due to Games Workshop's 'no internet shopping cart' policy we cannot display Games Workshop items for sale on our website, nor offer them for sale in a shopping cart."

[Darkanis]

You have to call them to order all GW stuff except bits. They have word sheets they can send you via email with their prices. It's still 20-25% off GW prices with a $7 shipping fee. GW fucked everyone a few years ago when they said no one but the GW website could sell GW products online. The only reason I put TheWarStore out there is they are the only ones that I have dealt with since 99 that gives you low prices and a low ship rate. They are a great site to order from if you want to save money. Plus they have over seas products such as Scribor for sale under USD and no over sea shipping fee.

[Romulus_Sorvian]

Real Quick question.

The pics i put up there. Anyone know what kinda Power armor that would be? Like what Parts where used to make it as well as the other details on the armor like the Scarbs and such?

Sorry noob question /:

[Domine Nox]

Well that's Mk III Power Armor. My guess would be forge world pieces for the main armor and for the little details very skillful use of greenstuff.

Forge World Mk III Iron Armor link

[Romulus_Sorvian]

Well that's Mk III Power Armor. My guess would be forge world pieces for the main armor and for the little details very skillful use of greenstuff.

Forge World Mk III Iron Armor link

Alright very cool, thank you much bud. Wish me luck

They shall be perfect or i wont stop tweakin em  
Ah one more thing, Is that an Old Jump pack on the Assault guy?

[Domine Nox]

Yes, that will also be forge world... but it seems Forge World isn't doing them anymore. This site has them though.

Jump Pack Piece Link

[Romulus_Sorvian]

Yes, that will also be forge world... but it seems Forge World isn't doing them anymore. This site has them though.

Jump Pack Piece Link

Freakin awesome thank you muchly

[DTdante2787]

Wouldn't they be able to use the Mk. V "Heresy" armor too? Because that armor you could swap in some terminator heads since those helmets look similar (that's what I did with my lead biker for my 13th Company Space Wolves, to emulate the older style feel)

Also, it's a shot in the dark, but remember to check ebay as well, you can get some awesome deals if you search hard enough. That's how I got 4 Chaos Bikers for $15 USD (which is a steal). You might need to strip some paint off, but it's worth it

[JC 042]

Mark V looks nothing like Mark III, they're completely different, and too be honest I dont see how terminator head looks like Mark III, the only time it could is if you go crazy with a file or use Grey Knight ones.

[Domine Nox]

Dante was saying that a Pre-Heresy army could use Mark V armor, as that is "Heresy" armor. In fact you could use as far as Mk VI Corvus, though in small numbers, as Mark VI was being produced at the time that Horus announced his treachery it was the super new armor at the time.

And for the helmets Dante was saying terminator helms work for Mark V, which it's kinda close.

[Romulus_Sorvian]

Alright very cool, thanks muchly to you all for the info, good to have some peeps who know what they are talking about help me out

I'll assume though i'll have to use alot of Greenstuff to get this all pulled off the way i want. Any tips for that?

If not no worries just figured sense i was getting good feed back i would ask

Thanks again brothers! 
Also one more thing, the assault guy still has the well lets say "Vents" in the helmet covering the mouth, where as the other is smoothed out which looks awesome.

Question is which would be more Thousand Son like? I want the Army to be as Pre-Heresy as it can be so just seeing what i will need to work on and such.

Anyways sorry for more noob questions lol and thanks again.